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Letters Patent No. 80,200, dated July 2l, 1868.

IMPROVED BUREAU-TRUNK.

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TO ALL WHOM LLMAY CONOERN:

Be it known that I, ANTONIO L. MORA, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Bureau-Trunk; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a. new and improved method of constructing trunks for travelling purposes, or for keeping wearing-apparel, papers, jewels, and other valuables, whereby the same are rendered much more useful and convenient than they have heretofore been; and the invention consists in combining the ordinary trunk, as hitherto used, with the convenient chamber-bureau, thus securing the advantages of both in a portable form, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

To illustrate the advantages and value of my invention, the drawings are made to represent the bureautrunk in the various positions it would assume in being used. l

Figure 1 represents the trunk as when closed or locked up, in which condition it presents the appearance of the ordinary travelling-trunk. 4 y

Figure 2 represents it with the cover raised or thrown back.

Figure 3 is a view of the upper portion or top of the trunk when the coveris raised, as in fig. 2i.

` Figure 4 (sheet 2) represents the trunk with the cover closed, and with the front of the trunk opened, exposing the body of thetrunk in the form of a bureau.

Figure 5 represents the trunk with both the cover and front open.

Figure 6 shows the front orbureau -part in a modified form,or as it may be made-for keeping books, papers,

orjewelry, which form is designed to accommodate a class of merchants who travel with valuable articles of merchandise, as samples or otherwise.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

represents the cover-or lid of the trunk. This cover may be attached to the body of the trunk by the vordinary butt-hinge, or by my improved adjustable ratchet-hinge, for which l have an application for a patent now pending. v f

B B represent the front or doors of the trunk, which is formed of two or more parts or doors, which are hinged to the efids of the trunk, as seen in the drawing at C. i

Should the front' be formed of more than two parts, they may be hinged together in any convenient manner, and when so formed,- or when'formed of one single piece or door, the front may be hinged to one side orend and locked at the other, or there may he vertical stationary pieces permanently attached to the body ofthe trunk, on each side, o'r atv each of the front corners, with the door uor doors between. But when there are drawers arranged, as represented in the drawing, the latter formation would be i'mpracticable. s

As this t-runk is` constructed, and as seen in fig. 2, the front is securely locked, while the cover is open; and as seen in ig.,j1',the cover is locked while the front is open,.eo that access may be had to/either part without exposing or disturbing the other. Y

For ,thepreservationor transportation of articles of clothing, (especially fori-allies the advantages of the arrangement shown cannotlie too highly estimated.

As trunks have been hitherto made andl used, the body ofthe trunk, when packed, (with the exception, perhaps, of what mayl he contained in one tray, in the top part of the trunk,) presents a. promiscuous heap of articles pressed out of all shape, which, when n. single article is wanted, have to be rcnoved one by one, ruinpled and wrinkled, and unfit for use. When the article is found, (if a ladys dress, or almost any other article belonging toa ladys wardrobe,) the services of the laundrcss are at once required.

To enable ladies as well as gentlemen to travel and prcscrvethcir clothing in a wearable condition is my principal object in this invention, and in ycombining the bureau with the trunl: the object is accomplished.

Articles of the finest linen, or laces of the finest texture, when prepared for the wearer in the most delicate manner, may be preserved uninjnred in these drawers ior weeks, whether in travelling or elsewhere.

Asbefore stated, the arrangements of the bureau may bevaried tosuit theivarioususes for which the trunk is intended.

The drawers and pigeon-holes may vary in size or number, as may be desired.

When the front of thetrunk (or the-biurean) is closed, the projecting a'nge 0r band of the cover closesl over the doors of the front, s seen in i'gfl, thus securely holding them in that position. But, in addition to Y this fastening, there are bolts connected ivith the lock of tbe't'runk', on the inside, which are operated by the key as the trunk is locked, the ends ofwhich bolts enter recesses in the bottom of the trunk, so that when the trunk islocked, the doorsrare firmly secured a-t top andhottonnA 4 Y The leek which I use on this trunk is of peculiar eonstruetion, for which I am about making application for Letters Patent. .Sufliee it to say, in this connection, that the cover of the trunk and the front or doorsof the bureau are securely fastened, either separately or'together, with one key, operating in one key-hole. y

I de not confine myself to anyiipertici'nlar form or proportion of frame for the bureau-trunk, nor to the method of binding,r or protecting the same, nor do I contine myself to a bureau-trunk with a. cover or lid, as the same may he made Without any openingby or at the top of the trunk. y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire-to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The: bureau-trunk, constructed as described, its'ltop, A, being hinged at its back to the body of the trunk,` :rnd provided with interior compartments and a. ange around its lower edge,lwhen the doors B, which cover the drawers, are hin-gedy to the front sides of the ends of the trunk, and are held closed by the ienge of the cover, which said cover is locked at two points by means of' one lock, all arranged as described, for thefpurpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 14th day of September, 1867. y y

` ANTONIO L. MORA.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MGNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

